[NOTE: Sorry for the lack of a post last week. I had this thing almost completely written, and then the page refreshed and I lost all but the very beginning. I was not in the mood to re-type it all.]
Welcome back, and once again we’re here to listen to music from the Romantic Era, and our first foray into Russian music with the great Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky.

Let’s start with the 1812 Overture, which I recently saw described as a 19th century diss track against France:
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